Like a spotlight on an empty stage So the clouds part ways with their Ominous hopes Separating themselves from truth They wish to whisk my joy away They wish to banish me to the darkest corners of a shadowy grey To someplace where there is a more active role which they can play And yet today is not such a day For the shadowy clouds which I abhor have been whisked away And hence forth they shall hang over my head no more When the light of my life has pierced their veil and come to pass I shall dance around the darkened clouds like a matador Let not the darkness overhead **** the candor which self-pity abhors